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My prediction would be: they will do updates to rF2 to keep the platform for Race Control consistent with LMU, primarily. In terms of new features, for the core sim, I would expect only minimal transfer of some subsystems they may update for LMU. For instance, if they came up with something...

Pure speculation on my part, but its probably because they consider the rear wheel drive cars to have a performance advantage at present. We know this is certainly the case with AI, and I certainly find it easier to get a laptime with either of the rear drive cars. So my bet would be, simply for...

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The IR12 prototypes from 2011 were really cool. Check these out.

When they were developing the IR12, it had all sorts of problems with weight distribution (too much to the rear) and aero imbalance. Dan Wheldon, who did much of the development driving, hated it. It would swap ends on ovals without warning, and pendulum. It also had hella drag. They had to do a...

Well yeah, but no. The basic chassis is as it was in DW12 days. But they've done a lot of modifications to it. They added side intrusion panels (after Justin Wilson broke his hip), and of course they added the aeroscreen which required a whole bunch of work to the top of the chassis to add the...

Eh, revisionist history here. iRacing were never in the game of producing single-brand racing games, aligned with one series. Even NASCAR is under the umbrella of the overall service. They also never showed any intent whatsoever to try to create a NASCAR 2003 updated, that wasn't simply part of...

Well, bugger. I had hoped that once LMU had been released, they'd do the same thing with BTCC and release it as a standalone game using the same game engine with a few necessary tweaks. I just hope we are able to keep the cars in rF2, but we probably won't be allowed them in Race Control...

It's completely confusing and a half-baked design. Having signed up, I go to the daily races, select the next upcoming event. There's a button on the bottom right for you to register to take part in the race. But there's also a button in the top left, that says Practice. Are there supposed to...

Well, here's the problem. Any updates to rF2 could affect the client-side (such as, primarily, continuing to improve and fix the AI) or server-side. We know they have (had?) an alpha test of the Race Control system as a replacement for the existing Competition System (CS). But we've heard...

Well, we will shortly see, should be imminent. Prior timelines have the Q3 release for August early in the month. Having released the AI updates as a Q2 hotfix, seems like an odd decision. You'd think they would hype that up as a main improvement in a quarterly code release, but they chose not...

For reference: The last new GT3 we had was Feb 22, BMW M4. We've not seen Lambos, Ferrari 296, etc. homologated since then. Since Early 2021, we've had the following new vehicles, not of WEC/IndyCar/BTCC varieties: RCCO EX Zero electric car; Alpine GT4 (gap exists with no other GT4s or TCRs)...

So some say we don't need a statement from S397/MSG on the future of rF2, and I disagree with that assessment and here's why. pilAUTO rightly says that we've come off a period of rapid improvement in rF2 after the MSG takeover. But we need to look at what those improvements are. In my mind...

From a personal perspective, I only own 1 of the tracks on offer (Sebring), so I could add those potentially. Problems are though, Monaco is a track I almost only associate with F1 and I don't do that in rF2. Gateway is only really IndyCar, so now the question becomes, will they keep adding more...

Well, rather obviously, as a long-time rF2 user, I want to know what is going to happen with the WEC/ACO LeMans content in the future, on this platform. Given the focus S397 had on endurance racing, we got LMP2s and GTEs (and GT3s) enough to build a series out of it. We also have most of the...